Bernard Herrmann
By: Les Films d'ici, Alternate Current International and La Sept in association with Channel Four, England present ; produced by Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran ; directed and edited by Joshua Waletzky
Contributors: Bosco, Philip; Scorsese, Martin; Chabrol, Claude, 1930-2010; Raksin, David; Bernstein, Elmer; Films d'ici (Firm); Alternate Current (Firm); SEPT (Television station : France); Channel Four (Great Britain)
Series: Music for the movies
Publisher: Kultur
Published: 2007
Place of publication: West Long Branch, NJ
Language: eng; ita
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780769785899
Subjects: Motion picture music; History and criticism; Composers; Biography; Interviews; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann who created music for over 50 films. Features interviews with, among others, directors Martin Scorsese and Claude Chabrol, composers David Raksin and Elmer Bernstein, as well as home movies, archival photos and interviews with Herrmann himself.
Notes: Originally released in 1992.

Executive producers, Richard Copans, Yves Jeanneau, Margaret Smilow ; camera, Mark Daniels, Jerry Feldman ; sound recordists, Pamela Yates, François Waledish.

Philip Bosco, narrator.

DVD ; Dolby digital.

Principally in English; some portions in Italian with English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginnings in radio; title: Citizen Kane; title: Sisters; title: Cape Fear; title: North by northwest; title: Herrmann's personality; title: The ghost and Mrs. Muir; title: Family and work; title: Composing a film score; title: On dangerous ground; title: The man who knew too much; title: Psycho; title: Torn curtain; title: The bride wore black; title: Taxi driver.